Another Iranian Pipeline Explosion As Aging Infrastructure Fails

Reports are emerging of a pipeline explosion at Iran’s Parsian refinery in the country’s southwest, where an excavator reportedly hit a 10-inch gas condensate pipeline today.  While the story is still developing, as reported by Reuters and Iran’s Fars news agency, there were no casualties in the explosion, and rescue squads are still on the scene.

This is the third major explosion since this summer affecting Iran’s gas pipeline infrastructure.  In mid-November, an explosion at an oil pipeline in southern Iran was…